tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post770807902843540628..comments2018-03-15T04:41:18.054-05:00Comments on Troll Racials are Overpowered: Rerolling to a New Game: Marketing StrategyKlepsacovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-90057983496157244152011-02-03T13:00:06.517-06:002011-02-03T13:00:06.517-06:00I checked out PotBS on a recommendation from spink...I checked out PotBS on a recommendation from spinks. If there had been a subscription, I wouldn&#39;t have started. But with a freemium/F2P option, the only inital cost was my time. Low barriers to entry are good and PotBS got the free/paid balance right. I&#39;m playing it still because I like the environment and the gameplay well enough. I&#39;m doing all of the tutorials too. If they dropped me directly onto an &quot;epic&quot; ship with end-game opponents, I&#39;d be deader than dead. I want the learning curve.<br /><br />So, no, I wouldn&#39;t want to start with a high level character. The incentive for my friends to start playing ought to be the same low initial cost that I had as the pioneer. What&#39;s going to keep all of us playing isn&#39;t some &quot;refer a friend&quot; bonus but great gameplay. The game has to actually be good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-61581718045365681132011-02-03T11:59:52.370-06:002011-02-03T11:59:52.370-06:00@klep
Although, in regards to keybindings, I&#39;m...@klep<br />Although, in regards to keybindings, I&#39;m finding PotBS to be quite good in that regard. New game, meaning I can set up new keybinds. If I were to try and make my keybinds in WoW more useful, I&#39;d confuse myself for weeks.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06456966157203102527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-84629974436017409862011-02-03T11:41:36.189-06:002011-02-03T11:41:36.189-06:00@Caramael: Do you mind if people skip ahead or you...@Caramael: Do you mind if people skip ahead or you just want to have your own choice of whether to skip or not?<br /><br />@Chris: I thought you meant key bindings and you had a character named Garr. Oops. The one time I don&#39;t relate everything to MC...Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-5929959485589753552011-02-03T11:22:28.413-06:002011-02-03T11:22:28.413-06:00@klep
Huh? Some joke I&#39;ve missed? By Garr&#39;...@klep<br />Huh? Some joke I&#39;ve missed? By Garr&#39;s binding, I mean as in half of Thunderfuy.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06456966157203102527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-38930746835704837712011-02-03T10:24:01.539-06:002011-02-03T10:24:01.539-06:00Yeah, being able to attack something with that pit...Yeah, being able to attack something with that pitchfork would definitely be handy to get started ;) Either way, my point was that I enjoy character progression. If people can skip ahead (like in Eve Online and other RMT rubbish), well, meh.Caramaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-55338586039811283352011-02-03T09:52:56.603-06:002011-02-03T09:52:56.603-06:00@Reala: There are some common skills across games,...@Reala: There are some common skills across games, but I can&#39;t safely assume that the gear was due to skill.<br /><br />@Nils: The idea isn&#39;t to say &quot;buy the game it will save me money&quot;, but so friends can say &quot;here, trying this out, if you&#39;re short on money we can get it free&quot;.<br /><br />@Caramael: Please tell me you at least need to be able to attack. No one could be that masochistic.<br /><br />@Chris: Aha, so a way to convert keybindings to equivalent skills?<br /><br />@Tesh and Caramael: Maybe it could be a game that doesn&#39;t have &quot;level to play the real game&quot; paradigm and all the cool gear could be converted into pretty dresses or something. Hats. I could totally use some hats in exchange for whatever tier we&#39;re on.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-60397046795390365202011-02-03T09:47:46.798-06:002011-02-03T09:47:46.798-06:00&quot;The whole grind-to-level-cap to start the ga...&quot;The whole grind-to-level-cap to start the game is absurd. This is not the future.&quot;<br /><br />Yes, this. That said, if a game is going to insist on that sort of nonsense, I think it&#39;s perfectly viable to offer level capped characters. If someone is only interested in the &quot;endgame&quot;, let them play it without dinking around through the leveling curve. Of course, that might be a &quot;value added&quot; service, easily monetized...Teshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03623156185083242995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-74956544906332323442011-02-03T09:04:22.511-06:002011-02-03T09:04:22.511-06:00Having Garr&#39;s binding is what keeps me playing...Having Garr&#39;s binding is what keeps me playing WoW. In fact, it&#39;s the reason I&#39;m logged in right now and not on PotBS.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06456966157203102527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-28935024860541830392011-02-03T07:55:16.401-06:002011-02-03T07:55:16.401-06:00I don&#39;t care about the level of awesomeness my...I don&#39;t care about the level of awesomeness my characters have reached. I&#39;ve rerolled to plenty of other MMOs, and the only reason I didn&#39;t stick with them longer than a month was because the gameplay sucked (in numerous different ways).<br />If I decide to try a different MMO, I *want* to start with a pitchfork, a ragged leather vest and no skills.<br />A decent game doesn&#39;t/shouldn&#39;t need stupid marketing bullshit (and that includes F2P) to attract players.Caramaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-59873916639452604912011-02-03T07:38:26.053-06:002011-02-03T07:38:26.053-06:00&quot;Would you be more likely to try, and stick w...<i>&quot;Would you be more likely to try, and stick with, a new game if it offered you a higher level character?&quot;</i><br />Honestly. No.<br /><br /><i>&quot;How about if it encouraged you to bring with your friends? I think I would.&quot;</i><br />I&#39;m not really in favour of cheap marketing tricks. I certainly won&#39;t go to my friends and tell than that it would be good for my bank account if they bought the game, too.<br /><br />Actually, I don&#39;t even think what you describe is a problem with new games. Many, many WoW-players love to test out new games. Remember 700k sold boxes, Age of Conan?<br /><br />What you describe is a more a problem for estabilished rivals for WoW, because new players &#39;fear&#39; that there are already other high level characters who &#39;look down on them&#39;.<br /><br />Besides: The whole grind-to-level-cap to start the game is absurd. This is not the future.Nilshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06468755466492675831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-64947129178360487472011-02-03T07:38:07.614-06:002011-02-03T07:38:07.614-06:00I like the idea in theory, but obviously it smacks...I like the idea in theory, but obviously it smacks of the whole &#39;bought your toon off eBay&#39; thing. Just because I have spent a ridiculous amount of time playing and learning WoW,it does not make me good at Rift.<br /><br />~RealaRealahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06781970721564189148noreply@blogger.com